All the musicians that I know want to act.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.